The Augustan Aristocracy

ISBN-13: 9780198147312

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Opis

While the monarchy established by Caesar Augustus has attracted much scholarly attention, far less has been said about the reemergence of the old nobility at that time after years of civil war. One clear reason for this has been the lack of reliable evidence from the period. This book goes backward to the early years of the first century B.C. and forward to the reign of Nero in search of documentation of the Augustan aristocracy. Syme draws particularly on the Annals of Tacitus to cover 150 years in the history of Roman families, chronicling their splendor and success, as well as their subsequent fall within the embrace of the dynasty.

Recenzje

'Between the seemingly abrupt sentences runs a current of feeling generated by Syme's profound understanding of the ironies of political history.' Thomas D'Evelyn The Christian Science Monitor

Spis treści

The Nobilitas ; The hazards of life; Nobiles in eclipse; Sixteen aristocratic generals; Monarchy and concord; Some perturbations; Stability restored; The resplendent Aemilii; The end of L. Aemilius Paullus; Marcus Lepidus; Two nieces of Augustus; Nero's aunts; Princesses and court ladies; The Junii Silani; Messalla Corvinus; The decease of Messalla; The posterity of Messalla; The last Scipiones; Descendants of Pompeius and Sulla; Descendants of Crassus; Lentulus the Augur; Kinsmen of Seianus; Quinctilius Varus; Piso the Pontifex; The education of an aristocrat; The other pisones; Nobiles in Horace; Fabius Maximus; Nobiles in Velleius; The Apologia for the principate; Appendix: The Consuls, 80 BC-AD 14; Index of persons; Geneological tables